. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stkanqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 298. Vol. XVI.] MARCH 8, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (Atonal, itotias, &t. PRACTICAL WORK IN THE APIAKY. Feeding. There is, perhaps, no branch of work in an apiary lesa understood than feeding. Many think bees ought to find sufficient food for their own requirements ; but they forget that we take away their honey, the very stores they have liid up for their sustenance. Besides, do we not feed our cows and other domestica
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stkanqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 298. Vol. XVI.] MARCH 8, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (Atonal, itotias, &t. PRACTICAL WORK IN THE APIAKY. Feeding. There is, perhaps, no branch of work in an apiary lesa understood than feeding. Many think bees ought to find sufficient food for their own requirements ; but they forget that we take away their honey, the very stores they have liid up for their sustenance. Besides, do we not feed our cows and other domesticated animals ? Should we not be considered bad farmers if we expected our cows to give us a good supply of butter and milk without providing them with good food ? It is not. dif- ferent with our bees. And both cows and bees, when pasturage is abundant, good, and rich, do well without our attention ; but at other times we must furnish them with food, otherwise they suffer much, and the loss is to our own detriment. Langstroth says: 'Few things in practical bee-keeping are more important than the feeding of bees; yet none have been more grossly mis- managed or neglected.' This author treats the subject of feeding very f ullj-, and, although his book was written nearly thirty years ago, the above remarks would apply with equal force at the present time. How to feed and when to feed will depend upon the different purposes for which we have to feed. We will briefly consider the different reasons for which bees have to be fed. These are—for stimulation, for preserv- ation, and for comb-building. The time and method of feeding, as also the description of food to be used, will vary according to the object the bee-keeper may have in view. For instance, in the spring and summer, when there is a great scarcity of pasturage and brood- raising is proceeding rapidly, bees must be fed, both for the purpose of stimulation and preservation. Stocks, which in early spring are so light as to seem
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